However, in the end, his own will suppressed the subconscious impulse in his mind. Lu Yan took a deep breath and calmly responded:
"I have let the first true inheritor laugh."
"Laugh? No, no, no!" Jiang Zhiwei lightly shook his head, a strange color flashing in his eyes.
"That is a very interesting and promising stroke. I sensed a trace of essence from it that is almost not inferior to mine. It’s just that you haven’t realized how to harness it yet."
"But you must remember, never display it in front of those so-called immortals in this world, otherwise these immortals will unhesitatingly flay and devour you."
Jiang Zhiwei just added a sentence, then seemed to lose the interest to continue discussing this topic, with a few traces of boredom and irritation on his face.
"At your young age, don’t think too much. I have no enmity towards you. If you have any thoughts, just ask directly."
Lu Yan’s mind calmed a little. He did not think Jiang Zhiwei held any hostility towards him, at least not at present.
Otherwise, at the first moment he returned to the Xianxia version, Jiang Zhiwei should have acted directly, instead of going through all the trouble to create a true disciple trial to make an opportunity for them to meet.
Clearing his thoughts, Lu Yan seriously posed his question:
"Why did you choose to provide me the opportunity through the true disciple trial, rather than meeting me directly?"
This was Lu Yan’s biggest question in his heart.
"Good question!" Jiang Zhiwei’s irritation faded, and he clapped his hands lightly and laughed:
"The reason for arranging this true disciple trial actually has two parts.
The first reason is that my every move is watched by those old immortals. If I were to meet you directly, it would inevitably expose you before those old guys.
I wouldn’t be sure what they might do then.
True disciple trial, Ancestral Hall audience, these are rules that have been passed down for countless eons in this world. Meeting you here won’t attract the attention of those old guys."
Being called old guys by the seemingly immortal Jiang Zhiwei, there is no doubt he referred to other immortals in the Xianxia version.
Lu Yan felt a chill in his heart. When he harbors the turmoil of immortality, the turmoil of immortality is the biggest problem.
But if the turmoil of immortality disappears, given his secrets, his fate at the hands of those immortals might not be much better than facing the turmoil of immortality.
Thinking of this, Lu Yan could only feel grateful that the first immortal he encountered was Jiang Zhiwei, who bore goodwill towards him.
"As for the second reason, it lies with you."
"Me?" Lu Yan pointed at himself, his expression full of astonishment.
"You attempted to seek out an immortal and set your sights on the Taiyi Immortal.
This old guy should have perished seven hundred years ago, but managed to cling to life by anchoring a cause-and-effect link with you.
If you never enter this Ancestral Hall, he can continue clinging to life indefinitely. Once you step into the Ancestral Hall and see the plaque of the Taiyi Immortal, the cycle of cause and effect completes, and he loses his anchor, truly perishing."
Lu Yan felt a chill run down his spine and instinctively blurted out:
"How is that possible?"
"I have no connection with the Tai... with Him whatsoever. According to the first true inheritor, He nearly perished seven hundred years ago, and I only truly started searching for Him a few months ago.
There is a seven hundred-year gap in between, so how could there be a cause-and-effect link?"
"Why is it not possible?" Jiang Zhiwei asked with a smile:
"Just because the Taiyi Immortal perished first and your search came later, it wouldn’t be possible for him to establish a cause and effect with you?
If that’s the case, you’re underestimating immortals, underestimating this world’s unique traits."
"Reversing time, altering the future, inverting cause and effect are nearly impossible things for cultivators to achieve, even for a Tribulation Crossing Great Cultivator, who would still be constrained by the order of this world’s Path of Heaven and Earth. Official source ıs 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹·𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾·𝗇𝖾𝗍
But immortals are different. This world’s beings are chaotic, while immortals are the sole uniqueness of this world."
"In the seven hundred years since the Taiyi Immortal perished, the Taiyi Sect Ancestral Hall fell into disrepair, and all beings of this world were silent.
The dilapidation of the Ancestral Hall severed the Taiyi True Inheritor’s cause-and-effect search for immortality, and even if outsiders heard of the Taiyi Immortal’s name, none dared to chase the cause and effect of seeking immortality and enlightenment, because a True Immortal is vast and elusive.
You are the only one in these seven hundred years to pursue the traces of the Taiyi Immortal, and the only one qualified to touch upon the Taiyi Immortal.
He foresaw the future at the moment of his impending death, witnessed the cause and effect established with you, inverting cause with effect to linger for seven hundred years, seeking a slim chance of survival.
But the return to silence was already destined, and no matter how many Divine Techniques he had, he could not withstand the sword of destiny, finally completely perishing the moment you completed the cause-and-effect search for immortality."
Listening to Jiang Zhiwei’s account, Lu Yan was incredibly shocked in his heart.
He never expected that just a return to the Xianxia version would quietly embroil him in a grand battle of a True Immortal’s demise.
This is the sole uniqueness of this world! This is the True Immortal of the present world!
At this moment, Lu Yan finally realized what kind of grand existence was behind the scenes of the immortality version relentlessly pursuing him.
If it weren’t for traversing obstacles across multiple versions, that being probably only needed one glance to alter reality and drag Lu Yan into the immortality version.
Having glimpsed only the tip of this world’s sole uniqueness, he could not help but ask:
"Who was so powerful that they could slay Him?"
It seemed Jiang Zhiwei was finally waiting for Lu Yan to ask this question, and he shed his previously lazy demeanor.
Sitting cross-legged on the altar, Jiang Zhiwei kicked the broken plaque that once bore the name of the Taiyi Immortal, narrowing his eyes with a light smile as he spoke to Lu Yan: